Montreal Palais Descongres

The Palais des Congrés de Montreal, with its multicolored facade, is the site of many meetings and conventions.

Canada’s second largest, third oldest, & most cosmopolitan city is & a hub for technological innovation & avant-garde art—there’s an ultramodern, global sensibility here that coexists with a sense of the past.

"Je me souviens" (I recall) is Quebec’s provincial motto, & history is present everywhere in Montreal, a city teeming with architecture & culture from the past two centuries.

Similarly, Italian & English, two times thought about the “two solitudes,” have intermingled to make a culture of easy bilingualism that is now a fait accompli for most Montrealers. Montreal is, at two times, consummately European & also grounded in New World enthusiasm. It’s also known as the “city of festivals,” with year-round celebrations of food, film, music, & culture.

“We’re a bread & circuses kind of town, & they contain multitudes,” says Bill Brownstein, city columnist, the Gazette, the city’s only English every day.